White hat hacking

What I know
I really don't know anything about this topic, I obviously know that is a form of hacking but i don't know how it works or what they do.

Questions I have about the topic
1. Why is is called White hat hacking?
2. How is it different from normal hacking?

Links with useful info
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/white-hat
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/black-hat
http://www.cyberlawsindia.net/grey-hat.html
http://www.secpoint.com/What-is-a-White-Hat.html

Things I learned
- White hats are people who hack a website to show its flaws to the owner just in time so they can fix the problems. They are against the abuse of computer systems.
-They are security specialists that test a companies website by making tests, examining the system and analyzing. Most of them are employees that work for the same companies.   
- They are the opposite of black hats. Black hats are the hackers who hack a web page trying to damage it and revel confident information.
-The name comes from the concept in movies that bad guys used black hats, to be the opposite, good guys wear white hats.
-Also there exist Grey Hats. These hackers are not good as white hats or bad as black hats, they are in the middle and usually don't hack for personal purposes.
-White hats have many names, some of them are sneakers, white knights, ethical hackers and more.
- They need to have an certificate for doing what they do that is given by the NSA, the National Security Agency.

How it relates to my life
It could relate to my life in the future. Maybe when I grow up I am going to work in an important company.  It is useful to know that there are specialized hackers that could help to improve security and end up benefiting lots of persons.

Questions I still have 
I still want to know how do hackers do the hacking?

College Exploration on Naviance

Colleges that interest me right know are Parsons School of Design and UCLA , although I am not sure what I am going to study yet.

After researching I found about McGill University in Montreal, Canada and Columbia University in New York, USA, these are some that interest me.

	McGill	Columbia	UCLA	University of San Francisco
GPA	( Not Available)	4	4	3.47
Graduation Rate	( Not Available)	93%	90%	70%
Cost	( Not Available)	45,290	35,564	37,424$
Location	Montreal,Canada	New York, USA	Los Angeles, USA	San Francisco USA
% Applications Accepted	49%	10%	26%	58%
Public/ Private	Private	Private	Public	Private
Size - Students	29,800	25,200	38,157	9,557

My average GPA was 3.5

The GPA are:

Not Available- McGill University

4- Columbia University

4- UCLA

3.47- USF 

These GPA are very high, there is a bigger chance for me to enter in USF that in the other ones. If I wanted to get in the others I probably would have to raise my grade a little more. I will try to find colleges that are more reachable for me, since these seem to be a higher level than mine.

From this I learned that colleges are not very easy to find the one that is best for you, you need to make a lot of research to find the one that has exactly all the things you need and want, but also that is at your academic level. I am glad that I have been a good student through out my years in school, I can see that is very difficult to get a high GPA and you cant change your school record. It will end up affecting your future and your chances to get in a good college.

Google Day 5

My goals for today are:
1. Edit more pictures 
2. Explain Presentation

1. Edit more pictures 

 after...

2. Explain Presentation
My presentation will have two parts. Both will have the same pictures but one will be with pictures that are "professionally" edited to make them better. And the other part would be the same pictures but edited to make them funner. The first ones I will edit in Pixlr, since it is the program that offers more professional effects and the others i will edit in Befunky.

GOOGLE DAY 4

Goal 1- get pictures to edit

Goal 2- Start editing

I am going to have 1 example of each type of photo, one ir more " professional" and the other one is edited in a more fun way.

Goal 3- Start to think about presentation
I think I am going to make my presentation in slide rocket, or prezi.